Which means my kids are hanging around, asking to be fed, wanting to do crafts and making unnecessary messes all around.

Sometimes I am a good mom and I take them out to lunch and then to Target where I desperately try to buy their love and affection with video games and candy. I mean, I’ve heard that works.

But other days I tell them to go outside, use their imagination and DON’T COME BACK INSIDE 5 MINUTES LATER!

My mom used to straight up lock the door so my brother and I couldn’t come inside. She would only unlock for restroom breaks or bloodshed. It’s true.

I never truly understood why she did that until now. I just assumed she was inside taking long, luxurious baths, eating all the Little Debbie Snacks in the house and painting her nails. It never occurred to me that she was doing laundry or vacuuming.

It’s also possible she was trying to save our collective brains from becoming mush. We were total TV-aholics. We would sit at home and watch the same 3 movies on VHS tapes that we recorded off HBO. Anything to avoid fresh air.

Our go-to flicks were: Grease, Rocky 4 and American Anthem. I wish I were lying to you.

I still, to this day, can recite every word spoken in Rocky 4. AND it’s also just a weensy-bit possible that my brother and I would tag-team the songs in Grease. I am 4 years older than my bro, so I had power over him. I am sure he’s less than thrilled at me revealing these little nuggets on the world-wide-web. Sorry dude.

So yeah, she was probably so sick of hearing Summer Lovin’ sang at the top of our lungs and the Rocky 4 work-out montage reenacted that her final straw was kicking us out. I guess I kinda get it. Man, the clarity you get as an almost-adult.

And 5 points to ya if you even REMEMBER American Anthem.

So yeah. Spring Break 2012. Target trips, Applebee’s and locking my kids outside. Mom of the year up in herrr.

Also, I try to load my kids up with as many saturated fats as possible. I mean, don’t you?

Enter Sugar Cookie Cheesecake Bars.

Ok, I am totally lying, my kids won’t go near cheesecake. They have much to learn.

These bars are really easy, totally delicious and will feed loads of saturated-fats-loving people.

Start with a package of dry sugar cookie mix, some French Vanilla Pudding, brown sugar, melted butter, vanilla and an egg…

Mix it together. Don’t be afraid to get dirty…

Then press it into a greased pan…

Now mix up your cream cheesey filling…

and spread it on top of your cookie crust.

Bake it for about 30 minutes.

Now. If you’re feeling fancy you can top your cheesecake bars with toffee. You don’t have to. You might WANT to, but you definitely don’t have to if toffee isn’t your thang.

I’m thinking next time I’m going to drizzle some salted caramel all over instead. Oooh, lightbulb moment!

But if you’re going the toffee route, take 2/3 cup of toffee bits and pulverize the heck out of them in your blender or food processor until they’re almost a dust…

As soon as your bars come out of the oven sprinkle the toffee dust all over the top.

There you go! Let it chill up. I made mine a day ahead, which is a great time-saver!

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Hi! I’m Shelly and I’m an addict. Of the buttercream sort. I started this site a few years ago as a way to justify my sugary, buttery obsession with desserts. It has worked out well for me so far, because as it turns out you guys all love sugary, buttery desserts too! It feels good to know you are not alone, doesn’t it?

I can eat the whole pan right now. Go ahead and try me! But you have to make it for me first Enjoy your spring bread! I just visited Jersey for the first time last week. If you count spending the night in a hotel and driving through to NYC, oh and stopping at Carlo’s Bakery a visit…then I totally visited!

You are killing me!…between your last recipe and this recipe I want to abandon my diet shakes and healthy choice meals and bake both of this recipes and eat them all by myself(because I have no self control, hence why I am on a diet) while feeling ashamed, gulity, and self loathing! Seriously I need to stay away from your sight for awhile because I can’t handle anymore of this yummy goodness!

I made snickerdoodle cookie bars in advance of valentines day. They were an adaptation of the popular sugar cookie bars (I think you’ve made them, I know lori/recipegirl, katrinaskitchen, and many others have them on their sites) but they were just cookie bars + frosting.

LOL I am just getting to the point of allowing my kid out of the house to go down to the park, omg I love the quiet. I wonder how I will feel when he won’t talk to me as a teenager, it will be weird. But a good weird. And I need these bars, omg they look amazing!

You’re so darn creative. Loving the sugar cookies with the cheesecake. What a fantastic idea and a delicious one at that! Two bites of heaven combined.

We don’t have Spring break this side of the pond. I’m assuming it’s the same as what we have. Easter holidays we call it here or mid-term break, or whatever it is, it’s where our kids are off for 2 full weeks and pester us silly with requests to do stuff as they’re ‘bored’.

These are actually a Betty Crocker recipe. They are called Creme Brulee Cheesecake Bars. I substituted a box of cheesecake pudding for the french vanilla and I found that the bottom layer was entirely too thick. I only put a litte more then half on the bottom and didn’t put any up the sides. Worked like a charm and got tons of compliments from my ladies bunco group.

I was so excited to try these, until I saw the crust uses packaged cookie mix and pudding. I don’t bake or cook with pee-made, processed stuff, so I wonder if I could use my own sugar cookie dough, and leave out the pudding mix?

Just wanted you to know how much I look forward to all your fun, delicious recipes!! Each day you have a new post up, my day is brighter! Gonna make this tonight for my prayer group. They are going to love it!!
Suzanne from Nashville

Oh why oh why did I have to discover your site? I’m destined to be fat forever! Seriously, everything looks so good I’m considering braving the 100 degree heat to go to the store. Or maybe not. Jersey girls are special aren’t we?

These are unbelievable. I tried your salted caramel idea. At first I thought it was a flop, though I knew it would taste amazing, when it came out of the fridge, it couldn’t not be cut because the caramel became a sheet and lifted off. BUT. About an hour later I returned. The sauce had come to room temp and was easily slice-able. I was explaining the issue with the caramel to a friend as she was shoving it in her mouth. With a full mouth, she exclaimed “Don’t you dare change a thing!!” You always come through. (I used Kraft caramels and 5 T whipping cream and melted. Probably homemade caramel sauce wouldn’t do the same thing. But I will never find out. It was perfect.)